By Beki Reilly
Well who didn’t love the results of this year’s BAFTAS?! What a brilliant line up of film and television – from Black Swan & The King’s Speech, (which were of course bound to clean up) but I thought some great people got the recognition they deserve this year. My favourites included Winners Chris Morris and David Fincher, as well as a Vicky McClure’s BAFTA for her role as Lol, in This Is England 86.
If you hadn’t of realised I can be a bit of a film nerd at times; not only geekin’ out on the film itself but the designs of the posters. Poster design is extremely important to the success of a film. It acts as a teaser to the movie itself, and has to sell the entire concept or hook the consumer into wanting watch the movie just in a few short seconds… after all a creative poster is memorable one. So what has caught our attention this year?
Of course I am going to talk about Black Swan. I already loved the work of Director Darren Aronofsky ever since I saw the disturbing ‘Requiem for a Dream’ many moons ago, but that wasn’t what got me excited about the movie, it was the posters. Influenced by Polish and Czech posters of the 60s and 70s, as well as ballet advertisements of the early 20th century, these posters really demand attention and give a hint of the surreal thriller and the conflict of the innocent white swan and the dark and twisted black swan.
Designed by LaBoca – "Our hope was to create a set of posters that could accompany the film without explicitly acting as a selling tool. We think a movie poster can help make a connection with the story of a film in much the same way a great record sleeve can do with music. It's ultimately about adding something to the experience."
This is a great link to the 50 best movies posters of 2010-2011. On there are two of my favourites, for ‘Let Me In’ and ‘Inception’ So… What movie posters have impressed you lately?
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